which collectively are referred to as "the submission". We request the
submission be known as the OWL1-1 submission.

Abstract

OWL 1.1 extends the W3C OWL Web Ontology Language with a small but useful set of features that have been requested by users, for which effective reasoning algorithms are now available, and that OWL tool developers are willing to support. The new features include extra syntactic sugar, addition property and qualified cardinality constructors, extended datatype support, simple metamodelling, and extended annotations.

Change control

The authors expect to continue evolution of OWL 1.1 until such time as
a W3C working group is formed.
After that time, we would expect future
versions to be produced by W3C process.

Intellectual property Rights

The below statements concerning Copyrights, Trade and Service Marks, and Patents, have been made by the
following people on behalf of themselves and their affiliated organizations:

Copyrights

Each organization, respectively, hereby grants to the W3C, a perpetual, nonexclusive,
royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any of its copyrights
in this contribution to copy, publish and distribute the contribution under the
W3C document
licenses.

Additionally, should the Submission be used as a contribution towards a W3C
Activity, each organization grants a right and license of the same scope to any
derivative works prepared by the W3C and based on, or incorporating all or part
of, the contribution. Each organization further agrees that any derivative works
of this contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.

Trade and Service Marks

Patents

The submitters agree to offer licenses according to the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements described in section 5
of the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy for any portion of the Submission that is subsequently incorporated in a W3C Recommendation.

Additionally, all co-authors claim to have no personal knowledge of
any IPR claims held by their respective organizations regarding OWL 1.1.

Suggested action

We suggest that the Consortium consider this as a starting point
for work in a new working group.

Resources

To help with this work, each submitting member organization expects, but does not commit, to be able to provide one member of the working group.
Other of the creators also expect to be able to serve on the working group.

In addition, the following member organisations have expressed
support for this submission, and expect, but do not
commit, to be able to provide one member of the working group:

Acknowledgements

The OWL 1.1 extension to OWL is the result of extensive discussions
with users of OWL, implementers of OWL tools, and theoreticians.
In particular, the authors and submitters would like to acknowledge
the contribution made by attendees of the
OWL: Experiences and Directions workshops in Galway,
Ireland ( 11-12 November, 2005 ) and Athens,
Georgia, USA ( 10-11 November, 2006 ).

Contact

Inquiries from the public or press about this submission should be directed
to the authors.